Triangle Within A Circle
Subtitle: The Globe and the People Within It
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: January 20, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781432700829
Subjects: Africa - West; History / Africa / West; History; History - General History; History: World
First sentence: TRIANGLE WITHIN A CIRCLE 
The book narrates about people, places and changes shifting from the past to the present. The book seeks for some centre of meaning in life. It presents to everyone about what happened to people of the world centuries ago; the configuration of people, their understanding and the role of each individual person on Earth. The book tells about historical events of West Africa in the 15th century in such a way that it is easy to understand. It narrates about Portugal and the Netherlands and their reasons for sailing to West Africa. It narrates  about the slave trade, and the booming exports of cocoa, gold, diamonds in Ghana and why West Africa has become what it is today.
Description: TRIANGLE WITHIN A CIRCLE

Historical Novel about West Africa, Ghana and Africa in general.
Garriguesz, a poor sailor ,watches one afternoon in May 1436, the Minho and Douro Rivers dashing into the Atlantic Ocean. It is a rainy day, the sky is heavy with thunder and he is fed up. He shapes his mind for Africa and convinces his sons Figo and Raul to sail with him from the city of Porto, in 
Portugal, to explore the unknown waters of the Atlantic Ocean. 

They drift away in their small ship, vanishing into the open ocean sailing toward Africa. On the Atlantic Ocean they experience firsthand many of the ocean’s deepest mysteries encountering mermaids, Insures Oxyrinchus, the oldest creatures on earth splashing the waters like bombs, many serpent-like creatures and those who are partly fish and partly plants, other creatures unknown to man and the trenches and ridges in the Atlantic Ocean. Their journeys finally bring them to a peaceful, wealthy and exotic region of West Africa. They are the first Europeans ever to land on the coast of West Africa. They choose to stay amongst the beautiful and good-hearted people. 

Garriguesz and his sons experience the riches of life in Africa, and learn about the origins of the people and their migrations to other parts of the world, artefacts, colouring in the skin and hair, languages, lifestyles and are fascinated by their customs, festivals, flora and fauna. They capture the brightness of the region and learn about the rise and fall of kingdoms, the decline of empires; mysticism, the supernatural, and suppression. Garriguesz descendents trace the region through the centuries, influx of Europeans in the region, building of forts as trading posts and the infamous slave trade. They experience how the region is colonized. They learn about export of cocoa over 50% of world’s supply as well as timber, gold and diamond exports to Europe. Thus, Garriguesz family traces activities in the region for many centuries, ending in 1950s, with the Independence of Ghana and the aftermath.
Notes: In a squeaky clean, enthralling story of shocking life of a Portuguese sailor Garriguesz and his sons, Geoffrey Akuamoa, writes about their journeys, from the Douro River through Lisbon, to the breathtaking world of West African regions and customs. It is an optimistic material reminding people of the dreams and thoughts of the human race of the past. The rebellious Western Traders, the gold seeking traders, rub West African development; take up slavery, and in whom their senses of right and wrong, minds and spirits of duty and sacrifice are in the present day, deplorable
Garriguesz and his sons’, who sail to West Africa in 1436, have different perceptions, like daylight and darkness, underscoring their differences and in addition unravelling them. Raul is troubled and breaks his stillness when he snaps. He remarks on the Europeans harsh treatments on West Africans. Raul wants to face the Europeans, his mouth is tightened in frustration, but he strives hard to hold back his growing enragement with his Father who fails to become aware of his point. Raul is offended, furious, and so rigid that his eyes protrudes through his eye sockets and shivers. He knows that what people say when they are angry are difficult to draw back later especially when people are overexcited
Raul`s fears intensifies when the natives are sold as slaves. Garriguesz, his father, had never seen Raul`s anger so close to the exterior and his tolerance so tense before. In general he is composed and organized no matter the situation. But then his world in West Africa had never been rocked as he is experiencing now. Performance of the European Traders, are inconsiderate. The coldness of their activities is unkind and upsetting.  Garriguesz family`s jumpiness is unabated, their minds fogged by the pain the westerners impose on the Africans. However, their bravery to stay and be of assistance to the Africans goes from strength to strength. They sense a spasm of compassion. Their implacability astounds and unnerves them. The European deeds remind them of so many reminiscences in Portugal, not all of them were cheerful ones. However, something reminds them that, “old habits die hard”.
Sometimes, in West Africa, Garriguesz and his family wonder if the natives’ present hard lives, and all the gold and wealth in the region, are the main contributors to their present condition. The Africans grin compassionately, looking very pleased for a better life to come.
Garriguesz and his sons learn that, every act people perpetrate, small or vital, has its predictable consequences. It is like throwing a small pebble into a lake and watching the ripples broaden out further and further, yet for getting.  Human race should perhaps drift with the thoughts.
Our minds must not be put in long-lasting dismay. There are lots of life’s minute pleasures to enjoy. The weak is always at the mercy of the rich and the privileged and men have dominance over women. If only the sensitivity in us becomes aware of this condition, society will create new ideas and, humanity in us will create understanding, harmony and peace instead of confusion and egotism, which can crush and destroy spiritual lives and renders human beings on the globe powerless.
Hopeful impressions of our conscious minds can be helpful towards these rejections. Some sections of the human race should not become inventors and others recipients. Conflicts should not lead the world through dark and devious paths of rebirth, destroying life’s quality on its path. We should not act contagiously and destroy all that is good, healthy, peaceful and beautiful. Demoralization follows unemployment, unemployment follows poverty, poverty follows criminality and criminality affects all. Those with bitter quality of life, who turn anger to ferocious deeds, find no relief in themselves. They smile hypocritically and with unfailing discomforts because there is no quality of life to rebuild. To forget, what went before, for the new generation, more far-away from the ancient times, will find out the suffering and hurting in the lives of those people; and in discovering will be aware of and shape their lives to the betterment of all.
Today, we have acknowledged the specifics, and have done something to change the ancient times. Human beings have intelligence that can be fittingly employed. No human should feel himself or herself remorseful, desolate or unpleasantly blameworthy because of the past. Human lives have transformed in a way that is beyond belief. In the book, Triangle Within A Circle, account is given of how Westerners conquered West Africa, how people survived the slave trade and how they have entered into an altered world.
Power of Thought 
The Circle symbolizes the Globe and the Triangle, the People who live in it
Thought, is a dangerous weapon. Thought can be destructive, and if it does not destroy, it dies away. If it does not die away, people are caught between entanglements of life and insecurities making them invent analogies and distinctions in life. When a mental image enters the brain, it creates  reasons that seem right, but it does not have power to sway or influence to prove that everything in life is likely to happen. The mind always convinces people of something, and if we do not achieve our objectives, we are something less than that required and are faced with disillusionment and, ferocious ideas enter the mind. This is because of the feeling that one had used his life and time without achieving any purpose or in an extravagance or careless manner.

To avoid grief, a fight for achievement should accompany a search for a road to make the future a living adventure undimmed by shadows of social calamities but first, we must realize that life is the ability of human activity to produce new forms dissimilar to dead stones and rocks.

Problems arise especially for the young generation, for whom it is all too easy to misunderstand life; thus consequences of their selection of things, choices and interpretations are, sometimes too difficult to accept as well as their decisions that seem right. It leaves them with loneliness, frustrations and self-pity. Occasionally, their impulses in life vanish with their consciousness in an orgy of annihilation. People live in a world in which purposes and choices, though shadowed by unpredictability`s remain the only comparative way of living.

To maintain intellectual equilibrium and lamentation of this type, people should search for other means of staying alive. We do not have omnipotence, and human beings should hope that respite will save them from the drabness of the stultifying conditions. Sometimes, the human race does not gain agreeableness with Mother Nature from which, we can replace our enthusiasm because, we refuse to show positive and eager initiatives to take positive actions. We display signs of negative resignation due to hopelessness and despair. Society cannot maintain life and develop effectively if we give up. If it happens, the whole meaning and purpose of life will fall at the mercy of accident. A society’s hope for the future is anchored upon self-dignity. State of our knowledge corresponds to our personal beliefs. Nobody holds life cheap. Sometimes, a structured community of people seems to be weak and do not search into dramatic details of the perils that surround them. Societies hide themselves in solitude with grief, while entertaining weariness, angst, depression and ambivalence. They do not have freedom of mind, the forgotten Triangle (people) in the Circle (the globe).
Table of contents: title: HISTORY, WEST AFRICA